Thirty. A couple of days ago, I got thirty likes on thirty posts in less than thirty seconds. Is this new follower a fucking speed reader? Please! No reading happened there. What is the point? I hate when my notification list is bombarded with these kind of likes. Don’t get me wrong… I’m glad that people like my posts. But this person didn’t read a single word I wrote. I’m sure of that.

And while I’m being all annoyed and shit, what the hell is the point of reblogging my posts to blogs that post only reblogs? Never a comment on the post… no intro… nothing. Just a reblog. Why are these people even blogging? They have nothing original to share. This kind of reblog makes me feel like my content is being stolen. They’re not doing it to share my work… they’re doing it to fill their blog with posts.

And the weird followers… that appear to be robots in most cases… what is the point of this? But, hey, who am I to judge? Maybe I really am that fascinating… even to robots.

And the I’m-just-here-to-advertise-my-blog comments. Ugh. I’ve mentioned this before… so I’m not going to elaborate. I think you know how I feel about that.

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Sandra is a writer, blogger, poet, artist, emotional disaster. She thinks far too much and sleeps far too little. Sandra lives in the Northeastern U.S. but dreams of an oceanfront home in Hawaii where she could learn to surf. She loves books, brutal honesty, coffee, and the color black. She hates insincerity, beer, whipped cream, and facebook. And she is uncomfortable talking about herself in the third person.

Mouaahahahahaha… Great post, Sandra! I don’t think it is a matter of being nice or mean (I say it before it gets out of your own mouth… I can feel you wanted to describe yourself this way :P) you are just way more straight forward than I am.

I agree with you, and the first point really made me smile! When it happens, I have a split second moment torn between “Come on! You haven’t even read my posts!!!!” and “Yeah, but that’ll give my stats a little boost” (I know, I know…. I shouldn’t think about stats. But although I don’t focus on them, I can’t help but enjoy a good day stats-wise 😉 )

I totally agree… I always made sure I only liked posts I had read from A to Z, and truly appreciated. I don’t know what these people expect… That bloggers will give them a follow for the 20 “likes” bundle?? I DO love, though, when I notice someone liking a whole bunch of posts back to back, but with enough time in between to know that they really liked their visit! 🙂

rant on girlfriend! love it when you do actually. You always say what I want to say but I get too pissy and ramble. So, gonna start just reblogging all your work instead of ranting on my own…okay? (I wouldn’t do that….bad joke…highly medicated for insanely hurting back…I just didnt want to miss your work today)

Very well said. I get these speed -not- readers sometimes, too. What’s the point of them doing all the ‘likes’ if they don’t care to read it. It wastes their own time, along with ours, because we have to do a bunch of deleting (at least on my email notices).

I agree on all points… and the reblogs to blogs that only post reblogs DOES feel like they’re stealing my content. I also don’t want to be linked to weird sites like that. No one reads them and they are obviously created for whatever obscure reasons, to gain clicks or email addresses or something…

The only thing that approving the reblog does is show it in your comment list below the post. If you don’t approve it, it won’t show there… but it is still on the other person’s blog. I didn’t know this at first. I thought NOT approving it would mean that it wouldn’t show on the other blog… but that’s not the case, unfortunately…

I’ve had that happen to me. It’s usually two bloggers that do it. I can see who they are in Statcounter, and it’s always the same two. They’ll like a bunch of posts at a time, spending about 3 seconds on each. Speed readers are they!

how can someone like stuff that fast? It boggles the mind..I once liked something, but then I had to click the like again because I didn’t actually LIKE what they said, but I agreed with them..so I “liked’ it again…they sent a note asking if I had lost my mind……

Ohhh. I hate that too. Wrote a similar post about reblogs too a long time. Your serial offender liker is…well i don’t know what to call it. But I have been known to read a bunch of posts and then go back and hit “like” like a crazy person. 😁

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